Description: This tall, slender woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her blue hair is still thick. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. After a long history of fighting, Manea and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 80 gp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp). 7 Acid flasks.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is pastel, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Enidda was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She's in love; and she has a crush on the local armorer

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She wears a white vest and prefers blue and yellow shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. With bright auburn hair. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Gynk hails from a village terrorized by drow. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Gynk alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp).

Description: This man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His lavender fur is greasy and uncared for. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his small brown hat.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'5" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her bronze crest is heavily combed to the left. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Driindar studied abroad. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She tends to her Fletcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Sard (40 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Layabout. Her white hair is well kept. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Elama was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a brown scarf. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 sp. Pink pearl (40 gp).

Description: She wears just a grey suit, and carries tridents. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 sp.